Private Quotes - page 2

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. (H. G. Wells)
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. View quote
Jim Morrison
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. View quote
Karl Kraus
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. View quote
George Steiner
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. View quote
Lewis Mumford
God enters a private door into every individual. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. View quote
Henry Hazlitt
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. View quote
Mark Twain
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. (Winston Churchill)
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. View quote
Adam Smith
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. View quote
Gerald Ford
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property. View quote
Maurice Allais
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. View quote
Martin Van Buren
If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight. View quote
William James
There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life. View quote
George Eliot
I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower. View quote
Banksy
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. View quote
John Rawls
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. View quote
Gary Becker
He who is void of virtuous Attachments in private Life, is, or very soon will be void of all Regard for his Country. There is seldom an Instance of a Man guilty of betraying his Country, who had not before lost the Feeling of moral Obligations in his private Connections. View quote
Samuel Adams